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Really obscure old games you'd love to see available

I'm a big fan of gog.com and try to buy my indie games through them as I like their anti-DRM ethic. There's one game I would love to see available on there, and though I know it'll never end up being available because it's an EA game, I can still pretend.

ARL 96!

I'm from Rugby League country, it's my sport of choice, and it has never been a sport graced with high quality games. ARL 96 on the PC was amazing, though. It was the sensible soccer of rugby league, and I have spent countless hours trying to hunt it down online in recent years so that I could play it again, though sadly to no avail. The game CD is incredibly rare now, most of them being in Australia, so it looks as though my dream of playing this game again will never be fulfilled :(

If you could pick one old game to be sold on steam/gog/whatever, what would it be?

I'm not sure it's all that obscure but I really wish Heretic 2 would get a chance to resurface at some point. Such an excellent game but completely overshadowed by its predecessor/Hexens and never gets a mention or digital release even when its brethren do.

Not obscure in the slightest, but the Hidden & Dangerous series on a DD service would be nice. I know hte first game was freewared at some point (I forget if there were ads) and I own the second as a disc, but never managed to find the expansion (didn't know it existed until it was long off the market for reasonable prices).

In terms of an actual "obscure" game, I would love it if Bushido Blade and the Dark Cloud games would hit the PSN already. Both serieses were amazing but sleeper hits. The former is trivial (it is a PSX game and I can confirm that the PS3 can play the first one if you just shove the disc in :p) and now that they have a method for PS2 emulation the latter should work as well.

But I suspect this was PC oriented :p

Also airtekh: System Shock 2 is probably one of the most widely known games among (non-casual) PC gamers these days, if only for the rabid fans constantly demanding it show up places

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I'm a big fan of gog.com and try to buy my indie games through them as I like their anti-DRM ethic. There's one game I would love to see available on there, and though I know it'll never end up being available because it's an EA game, I can still pretend.

I know that, and you know that, but did you really think it was not going to be mentioned in thread about games which aren't currently available?

If I hadn't mentioned it, I guarantee someone else would have.

Also, how exactly do you define how 'obscure' a game is?

Just because other people act like idiots doesn't mean you have to :p

And personally, I would say "obscure" to be something not everyone on the forums will/should know about. Its like listing saying "I like Evil Dead" or "THe Boondock Saints" or even "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" when someone asks for an obscure film. Maybe at one point it WAS obscure, but it is as mainstream as most games get these days.

Steam: Gundato
PSN: Gundato
If you want me on either service, I suggest PMing me here first to let me know who you are.

also, gundato: if you're going to nit, you might want to not have already posted about (1) a non-obscure game yourself, and (2) obscure console games when the thread is about games coming to steam and/or gog.

Not obscure in the slightest, but the Hidden & Dangerous series on a DD service would be nice. I know hte first game was freewared at some point (I forget if there were ads) and I own the second as a disc, but never managed to find the expansion (didn't know it existed until it was long off the market for reasonable prices).

For some strange reason, the Virgin Megastore at a nearby mall had 100's of Grim Fandango and Full Throttle CDs conveniently packaged in DVD boxes for $2.5 each about two years ago. Never knew why the sudden burst of old school gold, but I didn't question, just purchased and left with a happy smile.